CORNYN CRACKS DOWN ON "DATE RAPE" DRUG

Dallas company stopped from selling products that contain GBL

AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General John Cornyn today announced the filing of a Final Judgment
and Agreed Permanent Injunction which requires Dallas based John's Lone Star Distribution, Inc.
d/b/a Lone Star Distribution, to stop distributing products which contain GBL in Texas. John's Lone
Star Distribution, Inc. primarily sells health food products and dietary supplements to health clubs.
This company sold RenewTrient and other products containing GBL in limited amounts in Texas, as
well as several other products which the Texas Department of Health deems are unapproved drugs.

GBL is a chemical which the body's natural metabolic processes automatically convert to
GHB. Under new federal criminal law, GBL is an illegal substance in dietary supplements because it
is an ingredient used to make gamma-hydroxybutyrate ("GHB"), one of the "date rape" drugs. The
new federal law was signed on Feb. 18, 2000 which classifies GHB (the "date rape"drug) as a
controlled substance and makes it a felony to possess and distribute GHB.

The law also makes it illegal to use GBL, a precursor to GHB, except in approved
commercial uses, such as in paint thinners. Under Texas criminal laws, GBL in dietary supplements
is also illegal because it has the same effects as GHB which is a drug that is illegal to possess or
distribute in Texas. The State and FDA's position is that GBL is also dangerous when ingested
because it automatically converts to GHB, an illegal drug substance.

The State, based upon a referral from the Commissioner for the Texas Department of Health,
alleges that John's Lone Star Distribution, Inc., violated the Texas Health and Safety Code and the
Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by selling, offering for sale, and having sold RenewTrient and
other products containing GBL in Texas because they are unapproved drugs and therefore illegal to
sell. The permanent injunction requires the company to destroy products containing GBL, and other
unapproved drugs, valued at $6,000 and requires that John's Lone Star Distribution pay $10,000 to
the State for attorneys fees and costs of investigation.

John's Lone Star Distribution agreed to stop selling and distributing any products containing
GBL and any products which the State alleged were unapproved new drugs under both federal and
state drug laws.

This case was handled by Joyce Wein Iliya, an Assistant Attorney General in the Dallas
Office of the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division.